This was the year Nollywood made Netflix history. The film stars Nigerian film legend Richard Mofe-Damijo as Paul Edima, a deacon whose dark past returns after his son (Olumide Oworu) is framed for ...

Spirituality fuels Nollywood’s booming film industry. Nollywood recently surpassed Hollywood in film production, according to a UNESCO survey released in May. The Lagos-based industry has existed for ...

Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, the Managing Director of the Jos-based Nigeria Film Corporation, says Nigerian movies are among the best internationally in terms of contents, settings and acceptability. Maduekwe ...

The Nigerian entertainment industry is on a roll. In February, Netflix, the global streaming service with over 193 million subscribers, announced a slate of partnerships in the world’s third-largest ...

Osiberu will produce original TV and movie projects for Amazon through her Greoh Studios shingle. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Amazon Prime Video has signed a three-year overall deal with ...

Nollywood is an entertainment-producing powerhouse gaining a foothold in the United States. But for one Boston film student, the movies her mother watched will always be tied up with memories of home.

Photographer Pieter Hugo captures actors from Nigeria’s film industryFrom the bookNollywood, published by Prestel Publishing Nigeria's film business, a.k.a. Nollywood, is the third largest in the ...

Nigerian-born Jason Njoku is at the vanguard of Nollywood’s digital revolution. (Nollywood, remember, is Nigeria's booming movie industry.) In his early thirties, Jason is the founder of NollywoodLove ...

The media reports recently in Nigeria that the government through the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), issued a directive to censor and ban certain categories of creative content and ...

In the early days of Nigerian cinema, directors and actors wandered cities and tribal lands shooting movies straight to VHS tapes that were sold in kiosks and bartered in villages. Those times of ...

There’s everything that the average English man in 1926 would have expected from Africa; guns, spears, bows and arrows, alcoholic kings and a white woman who tries to save the cannibals from ...